World Aquatics Championships: Matty Lee & Noah Williams take silver, Jack Laugher claims bronze
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World Diving: Matty Lee and Noah Williams win synchro diving silver
Great Britain's Matty Lee and Noah Williams took silver in the 10m men's synchronised diving while Jack Laugher secured bronze in the 3m springboard at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.
It is the first time Lee and Williams have competed together as a pair.
The duo scored 427.71 across their six dives as China took gold.
Laugher had already won silver on Sunday in the men's 3m synchronised event with Anthony Harding.
It was a comfortable silver for Lee, who won Olympic gold with Tom Daley in Tokyo, alongside new partner Williams as the pair finished 10.59 points ahead of the bronze medal-winning Canadian duo.
"I'm just really happy that we managed to put it together. It's our first world champs together, we've smashed it and I can't wait for the next two years," Lee said.
Williams added: "Hopefully we can build on this for future competitions. I was mainly focused on this event, and now I've done this I'm really happy."
In the 3m springboard, Chinese pair Zongyuan Wang and Yuan Cao took gold and silver, respectively, but Laugher's score of 473.30 points was enough for third, despite his fourth dive scoring just 37.8, which saw him momentarily drop into sixth place.
A 91.2 and a 97.5 - the second-highest score of the competition - in his final two most difficult dives were enough to secure the medal.
World Aquatics Championships: Jack Laugher claims bronze in 3m springboard
"I'm at the stage now where I don't really care too much what the colour of the medal is," Laugher said. "Obviously I'd love for it to be gold but I base my happiness with my performance off how the performance has gone itself."
"I got a bit nervous on my fourth dive - but I fought back every single time, and the other four dives, I absolutely drilled," he said.
Already a three-time Olympic medallist, the bronze medal is Laugher's sixth podium at a World Championships.
"It's the first competition of the year, I'm shaking the cobwebs off a bit, it just so happens that the first competition of the year is the World Champs, but I think I've got a lot to learn from and I can utilise those lessons going forward," Laugher said.
Fellow Brit Jordan Houlden finished ninth at his debut at the Championships.